Why does the Technician's Corner require thread approval?

[Kokuyougan]

Title says it all.

I tried posting there, and it asked to be approved. AFAIK, that doesn't happen in other forums...

Any particular reason?

[Inde]

It doesn't Kokuyougan. The spam filter on the vbulletin forum software will moderate a post that has too many links/pictures or words thinking it's spam. If it happens just PM a moderator or admin and we can approve the post for you.

[Snograt]

Hmm, that's likely to be a recurring problem in Techs' Corner. We get many "spec check" threads, where each component of a PC is individually linked. Most of them seem to come through ok - do you happen to know what the actual link limit is?

[Katsumi]

I have seen this as well, Snograt. Most of the ones I've seen have to do with HijackThis! logs, since it's a lot of code without much actual English, as far as sentences and grammar goes. This must tip off the spam catcher.

[Snograt]

Ah yes, the HJT logs. Damn things are full of links. Does the spam filter still catch it if the log is enclosed within [code] tags?

Just as well HJT log posting hasn't caught on here - some forums are inundated with them. If it does, we may need a policy rethink or something.

[Katsumi]

Not sure about the code tags. I seem to remember it happening regardless of them. Some testing seems to be in order.

[Chthon]

I just got a post sent for mod approval in the mesmer forum that merely quoted someone who had a half-dozen skilltags (ie [Blinding Flash]) in his/her post. I don't recall it doing that before....

[fenix]

As Inde said, if there are a lot of links, pictures (gwbbcode included) it'll throw it through the spam filter, which is the mod approval thing. Just PM a mod of the relevant section imo.

Or you know, don't post 5000 images and links....

[Earth]

It also blocked a person who ws merely linking to the eu.ncsoft.com (or something) site. It only had one link.

Dunno, is there a way to make some links go through the filter the whole time?

[Katsumi]

The spam filter works by consulting a list of known spam messages and spam account usernames. If anything in the message matches up with anything in that list, it usually gets reserved for mod approval.

It's not a perfect system, but it sure has cut down on the spam we have to deal with.